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  • Making the Second Ghetto

    Race & Housing in Chicago, 1940–1960

    First published in 1983 and praised by the likes of Ta-Nehisi Coates and Thomas Sugrue, Arnold R. Hirsch's Making the Second Ghetto is the rare book that has only become more piercingly prescient over the years.Hirsch's classic and groundbreaking work of urban history is a revelatory look at Chicago in the decades after the Great Depression, a period when the city dealt with its rapidly growing ... Leer más

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  • Segregating Cities

    An Arnold R. Hirsch Reader

    Series series Historical Studies of Urban America
    Collects critical essays by the author of Making the Second Ghetto.Arnold R. Hirsch (1949–2018) was one of the preeminent urban historians of his generation, a reputation cemented by his landmark book, Making the Second Ghetto. With compelling clarity, Hirsch demonstrated that segregation is not the inevitable result of individual choices, natural tendencies, or cultural traits—it is a structural ... Leer más

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  • The Making of Urban America

    The revised and updated third edition of The Making of Urban America includes seven new articles and a richly detailed historiographical essay that discusses the vast urban history literature added to the canon since the publication of the second edition. The authors’ extensively revised introductions and the fifteen reprinted articles trace urban development from the preindustrial city to the ... Leer más

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  • Ours Was the Shining Future

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  • The Great Depression

    America 1929-1941

    One of the classic studies of the Great Depression, featuring a new introduction by the author with insights into the economic crises of 1929 and today.In the twenty-five years since its publication, critics and scholars have praised historian Robert McElvaine’s sweeping and authoritative history of the Great Depression as one of the best and most readable studies of the era. Combining clear-eyed ... Leer más

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  • To Make Men Free

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    From the New York Times bestselling author of Democracy Awakening**, the paradoxical evolution of the Republican Party—founded to give the poor equal opportunity, but too often aligned with the country's elites.****"The most comprehensive account of the GOP and its competing impulses.” —**Los Angeles TimesWhen Abraham Lincoln helped create the Republican Party on ... ... Leer más

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  • FDR's Folly

    How Roosevelt and His New Deal Prolonged the Great Depression

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    The Great Depression and the New Deal. For generations, the collective American consciousness has believed that the former ruined the country and the latter saved it. Endless praise has been heaped upon President Franklin Delano Roosevelt for masterfully reining in the Depression’s destructive effects and propping up thecountry on his New Deal platform. In fact, FDR has achieved mythical status in ... Leer más

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  • A History of America in Ten Strikes

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    FDR, LaGuardia, and the Making of Modern New York

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